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Department of States, America, 
| Nov. 22, 1794. 
Thereby certify, that the fore- 
going are true copies of an original 
communication from Mr. Jay, to. 
the secretary of state. 
Gro. Tar tor, jun. chief clerk. 
See EP ee 
Proclamation issued by his Majesty, re- 
latiwe to Seditious Assemblies. 
. George R. 
WHEREAS it hath been repre- 
sented to us, that, immediately be- 
fore the opening of the present 
session of parliament, a great num- 
ber of persons were collected in 
fields in the neighbourhood of the 
metropolis, by advertisements and 
hand-bills; and that divers inflam- 
matory discourses were delivered 
to the persons so colleéied, and 
divers proceedings were had, tend- 
“ing to create groundless jealousy 
and. discontent, and to endanger 
the public peace, and the quiet and 
safety of our faithful subjects: and 
whereas it hath been also repre- 
sented to us, that divers seditious 
and treasonable papers have been 
lately distributed, tending to excite 
evil disposed persons to atts en. 
dangering our royal person: and 
whereas such proceedings have 
been followed, on the day on which 
the present session of parliament 
commenced, by aéts of tumult and 
violence, and by daring and highly’ 
criminal outrages, in direct vio- 
lation of the public peace, to the 
immediate danger of our royal per- 
son, and to the interruption of our 
passage to and from ovr parlia- 
ment: and whereas great uneasi- 
ness and anxiety hath been pro- 
duced in the minds of our faithful 
subje&s, by rumours And appre- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1795. 
hensions that seditious and unlaw- 
ful ‘assemblies are intended to be 
held by evil disposed persons, and 
that such other criminal practices 
as aforesaid are intended to be re- 
peated: we therefore have thought 
fit, by and with the advice of our 
privy council, to enjoin and re- 
quire, and we do hereby enjoin 
and require, all justices of the peace, 
sheriffs, mayors, bailiffs, constables, 
and all other our loving subjects 
throughout our kingdom, to use 
the utmost diligence to discourage, 
prevent, and suppress, all seditious 
and unlawful assemblies: and we 
do specially enjoin and command 
all our loving subjects, who shall 
have cause to suspect that any such 
assemblies are intended to be held 
in any part of our kingdom, to 
give the earliest information there- 
of to the magistrates of the several 
distri@s within which it shall be 
suspeGted that the same are intend- 
ed to be held; and if such asserm_ 
blies shall, nevertheless, in any case, 
be actually held, to be aiding and 
assisting, on being: required there- 
to by the civil magistrate, in caus- 
ing persons delivering inflamma- 
tory discourses in such assemblics, 
and other principal a¢tors therein, 
to be forthwith apprehended, in 
order that they may be dealt with 
according to law. And we have 
also thought fit, by and with the 
advice aforesaid, to enjoin and re- 
quire, and we do hereby enjoin and 
require all justices of the peace, 
sheriffs, mayors, bailiffs, constables, 
and all ether our loving subjects 
throughout our kingdom, to be in 
like manner aiding and assisting in 
bringing to justice all persons dis- 
tributing such seditious and trea- 
sonable papers as aforesaid. 
Given at ourcourt at St. James’s, 
one the fourth day of November, 
one. 
